Kraut's English phonetic blog

credit: https://www.spreadshirt.co.uk/ I'm shore (sorry: sure) you can pronounce the sound /l/ without difficulty, but do you know e...

This third blog with exercises is on releases again, but this time it's about identical plosive sequences. When you say the sentence...

This is another blog on the joys of plosive releases (for the previous blog on nasal release see here). It's about what phoneticians cal...

How do you usually pronounce button : [bʌt h ən] or [bʌtn̩], as in my belly button is itching . (No, I'm not going to discuss body hygie...

Paul Carley, our phonetic listening post, has spotted an interesting weakform. On BBC Radio 4 of April 24 one of the presenters of the news ...

The indefinite article of English is either <a> or <an> depending on whether the following word starts with a consonant or a vow...

"Seven Sisters Station" is an underground and overground station in an area of North London called  "Seven Sisters". Thi...

It was by mere chance that I stumbled across an eighteenth-century dictionary indicating stress though not pronunciation: Thomas Dyche (174...

BUT can function as a - conjunction: "He rushed to the post office, but it was already closed", - preposition: "I can come ...